I find myself addressing the National Association of Scholars about my experiences fighting race preferences, first in the courts and then through a political campaign. Let me look back over the path I took to arrive here.
After 6 years of legal debate, I participated in Gratz v. Bollinger, a case before the highest court in the nation, where, with the stroke of a pen, the justices seemingly elevated diversity above equal treatment under the law. Devastated by the ruling, we, who opposed favoritism might easily have walked away or deferred the battle for 25 years. But Center for Individual Rights president Terry Pell and others recognized that we might very well have carried off a public-relations victory. People, not just in Michigan but throughout the nation, were outraged at the Supreme Court decision, and began to demand fair and equal
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